Chapter 297 - Entering Top Eigh (1/2)

Another morning, and the top sixteen of the small team battles were finally determined.

And Russia accounted for three teams… thus showing how strong they were overall.

The F6 members were being stopped by the female streamer at this moment.

“You promised me earlier that you’d accept my interview.”

However, Roland shook his head at Qi Shaoqiu; they didn’t want to do any interviews.

Qi Shaoqiu immediately understood. He stopped in front of the female streamer again, smiled, and said, “Sorry, the contestants are already tired, they need to rest.”

This was a very legitimate reason, and the female streamer had no choice but to get out of the way again.

But the viewers in the livestream were not quite satisfied.

“Hehe, took less than a minute to end the battle, tired my a.s.s.”

“9494[1], I just love the way they’re showing off.”

“It’s cool to show off now, but if they lose in the finals, you guys will still hurl lots of insults at them!”

“Praises to victors, curses to losers, isn’t that quite normal?”

Ignoring the discussion in the livestream for the moment, Roland and the others returned to the players’ area, took off their helmets, and began to sit and eat the lunch provided by the venue. The semifinals would start at 2:30 PM, so they had about two hours to rest.

Lin Zhaotong came over and asked Qi Shaoqiu, “What if you guys really win the t.i.tle, you still won’t give interviews?”

Qi Shaoqiu looked at Roland and the others.

Roland shook his head. “Forget it. We’re just here for fun.”

Hearing this, Lin Zhaotong felt a chill in his heart. The group of people from the club trained for a few hours every day and worked very hard, just to stand in the arena for a little while longer, and it was their dream to win the champions.h.i.+p and be interviewed.

But this was a dream that they didn’t want.

Lin Zhaotong was a little depressed.

He had been working at the club for several years now, and when the country’s first full-armor combat compet.i.tion had taken place, he had been on the field and had been defeated by the French with his Green Dragon Crescent Blade, but of course, it had to do with the fact that they were competing for the first time and didn’t have any experience.

He then began to move into logistics, and together with other like-minded companions, he nurtured a small organization of only five people to its current size and became the Chinese host of the full-armor combat compet.i.tion. In recent years, the national team had been slowly improving, but they never had the opportunity to aim for the t.i.tle.

Moving behind the scenes, Lin Zhaotong treated the champions.h.i.+p t.i.tle a little differently than before.

The contestants aimed for the t.i.tle for glory.

The main reason why Lin Zhaotong wanted the club’s team to win the champions.h.i.+p was to promote full-armor combat and let more people know about the sport.

If the champions.h.i.+p team was interviewed, the topic would be very popular—especially in the second team, that Schuck guy was so d.a.m.n handsome, those teen idols seemed just like ordinary people compared to him. If he could appear in the video, he could definitely draw in a great amount of traffic.

But the other side didn’t even want to be interviewed.

This was such a waste of talent.

Lin Zhaotong still wanted to say something more, but Qi Shaoqiu shook his head.

Qi Shaoqiu was a very responsible person. He felt that since he brought Roland and the others here, and they were willing to help him fight a full-armor combat compet.i.tion, then some of the troublesome things that they were unwilling to do, he had to find a way to handle himself.

Lin Zhaotong sighed helplessly.

After that, he left.

Roland and the others closed their eyes during the break for nearly two hours before coming back to the arena.

The elimination match wasn’t a one-battle match, but instead, it was a best of three.

Perhaps it was because their luck ran out, but after the draw, Roland and the others’ opponent for the first match of the finals was Russia’s second team.

The female streamer said with an incredulous look, “This is too unlucky. They’ve made it to the finals with great difficulty only to encounter Russia’s second team. Are they fated to be sixteenth?”

In the livestream, a wave of bullet-screen comments popped up.

“With great difficulty? It’s quite difficult when each match doesn’t last more than a minute.”

“When you put it that way, it does seem that none of the Russian teams were able to end the battle so quickly.”

“That’s why I think the second team is actually very strong.”

“That’s because the second team met all the rookie teams, okay.”